Although debunkers of the paranormal fancy themselves as scientific, their fixed notions of materialism, evolution, and atheism are the exact opposite. Science isn't a noun, a dogma to defend. It's a process, a verb. Rather than just affirming beliefs by seeking only friendly faces in an infinite universe of facts, true science, and basic honesty for that matter, is about making every effort to disprove our ideas and beliefs. Unfortunately, debunkers, like most people, don't do that. Instead, people identify with a fixed dogma, e.g., "I am an evolutionist, materialist, atheist, agnostic, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist . . ." or whatever. That's a sure way to fix the brain in place, insulating it from the unfolding of advancing knowledge that brings us closer to the truth.

Keep those thoughts in mind as we consider the legacy of debunkers vested in status quo thinking.

Reason and science (quantum physics in particular) permit the possibility of weird things. Actual evidence of such phenomena points to their reality. Thus, paranormal and preternatural events aren't "woo woo," as skeptics coast them, they're normal and natural. Without this understanding, combined with a faith-like belief in materialism and evolution, materialists don't see the gateway to exploration and enlightenment. Rather, any report of anything out of the materially ordinary is just an opportunity for dimensionally and materialistically stuck brains to witch hunt.

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​It's Impossible and Ridiculous

In the early 1900s when Wilbur and Orville Wright flew their plane, Scientific American dismissed the event as a hoax. Simon Newcomb, a professor of mathematics and astronomy at Johns Hopkins University showed scientifically that powered human flight was "utterly impossible." For five years people looked up at the plane flying overhead, but there was a general denial that it ever left the ground.

Even after Edison lit up Menlo Park around his laboratory with incandescent lights, scientists protested that Edison had "a positive want of knowledge of the electric circuit" and that the whole thing was "a completely idiotic idea." He was called the sorcerer of Menlo Park and told that what he was attempting would never be technically feasible.

When Charles Parsons invented the turbine and claimed it would greatly increase the speed of ships, the Admiralty told him that such a feat was impossible. The turbojet was also labeled "an impossibility."

When Baird developed a television, those who observed it were convinced "it was all a trick or something equally disreputable." Even the discoverer of radio waves, Heinrich Hertz, warned Guglielmo Marconi that he was "wasting his time" with experiments on wireless broadcasting.

When Wilhelm Roentgen announced his discovery of x-rays, Lord Kelvin—author of almost 700 scientific papers, 70 inventions, Creator of the absolute zero Kelvin temperature scale, and perhaps the greatest physicist of the 1800s—remarked that x-rays were nothing but an "elaborate hoax."

Immanuel Velikovsky's ideas (1950) about the violent history of Earth contradicted the vogue slow and steady uniformitarian view of Earth history that fit the evolution hypothesis. His various predictions, such as the high temperature of Venus and the projected magnetic field of the Earth, were called by scientists "intellectually fraudulent," "dynamically impossible," and "too ridiculous to merit serious rebuttal." Macmillan, the publisher of his book, Worlds in Collision, was forced to stop printing it due to pressure from their academic textbook buyers even though Velikovsky's book was their biggest moneymaker.

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The noted British astronomer, Sir Harold Spencer Jones, pronounced that "space travel is bunk" two weeks before Sputnik 1 was launched into orbit.

This only begins the shameful and dispiriting catalog of intolerance by supposedly rational and dispassionate scientists and their vassals. Advance seems to only ever occur by struggling against a tide of opposition, not because of cool, principled devotion to reason and science.

Debunkers

Since protecting the status quo is the status quo, it's little wonder that the paranormal and metaphysical have not been embraced by materialists and evolutionists, and even some religionists.

The primary journal in the paranormal field is the Journal of Parapsychology. It contains peer-reviewed research that's primarily privately funded and has a readership in the hundreds. On the other hand, The Skeptical Inquirer, a publication of the Committee for the Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP), does not conduct research relevant to discovery, but rather is in the business of debunking. It has a circulation of about 25,000. People, including scientists, are much more given to protecting the status quo than venturing into the realm of new ideas.

When trying to prove that there is no correlation between the position of Mars and the birth of gifted athletes (such scientific evidence exists) the debunkers reportedly fudged data. In another instance, to disprove ESP experiments at Duke University where a subject in one building guessed the cards in another, a CSICOP debunker proposed that the subject only pretended not to be in the building where the cards were. The debunker claimed that the subject surreptitiously gained access to the building where the cards were and crawled through the attic to view the cards through a hole in the ceiling. That the blueprints of the building showed such a scenario impossible didn't matter. This proof of ESP fraud remained in CSICOP's publications long after it was proven that the fraud was on CSICOP's part.

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